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Leader rating

Synopsis

At the start of this film, Dean and Cindy are the unhappy parents of a young daughter. They fight the whole time - she seems to take everything too seriously and he treats life as a game. What this heartbreaking drama does is slowly let us see how the kind of love-at-first-sight moment movies normally celebrate can lead to years of misery. It's a hard watch, beautifully performed.

What our educators say

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